Written Answers Friday 28 August 2009

Scottish Executive

Ministerial Engagements

George Foulkes (Lothians) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the official engagements in July of each Cabinet Secretary and the means of travel to each engagement.

John Swinney: The information you requested is listed in the following table:

  

Cabinet Secretary
Date of Travel
Official Engagement
Means of Travel


Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth, John Swinney
1 July 2009
Interview, STV
Private Car


1 July 2009
Interview, Newsnight, the Tun
Private Car


2 July 2009
Meeting at Qinetiq, Western isles Task Force, Benbecula
Scheduled Flight


2 July 2009
Visit to Qinetiq, West Camp, Balivanich
Private Car


2 July 2009
Visit to Qinetiq, Range Head, South Uist
Private Car


2 July 2009
Visit to MOD pier facility. Loch Carnan
Private Car


2 July 2009
Visit to Salar Salmon, Loch Carnan
Private Car


2 July 2009
Meeting at Qinetic, Western Isles Task Force, Benbecula
Private Car


2 July 2009
Meeting with Susan Bain, NTS Area Manager, Benbecula
Private Car


2 July 2009
Interview, Am Paipear, Benbecula
Nil


3 July 2009
Visit to Diageo, Hill Street Kilmarnock
Official Car


3 July 2009
Meeting with East Ayrshire Council, Kilmarnock
Official Car


3 July 2009
Meeting, CoSLA, Perth Council offices
Official Car


13 July 2009
Interview, GMTV Glamis
Private Car


14 July 2009
Phone interview with Real Radio
n/a


14 July 2009
Meeting, Diageo task force
Official Car


14 July 2009
Interviews, Various media
Nil


15 July 2009
Meeting, Macquarie Capital
Nil


15 July 2009
Meeting, Scottish Water
Nil


15 July 2009
Meeting with Sir John Arbuthnott
Nil


15 July 2009
Meeting, SEPA
Nil


15 July 2009
Meeting with Allied Vehicles
Nil


15 July 2009
Interview, News drive
Nil


15 July 2009
Dinner with Sir Angus Grossart 
Walked


16 July 2009
Visit, Diageo, Port Dundas
Official Car


16 July 2009
Visit, NPI Solutions, Irvine
Official Car


16 July 2009
Meeting and SOA signing, North Ayrshire Council, Irvine
Official Car


16 July 2009
Visit, Booth Welsh Automation, Stevenson
Official Car


16 July 2009
Interview, STV Glasgow
Official Car


16 July 2009
Dinner at Bute House
Official Car


17 July 2009
Interview, Ian Fraser
Nil


17 July 2009
Interview, STV in constituency
Private Car


17 July 2009
Visit, A9 Junction, Bankfoot
Private Car


20 July 2009
Meeting, SDI Japan, Tokyo
Scheduled Flight


20 July 2009
Dinner, SDI Japan
Private Car


21 July 2009
Lunch, British Embassy representatives, Tokyo
Private Car


21 July 2009
Reception, Tokyo University
Private Car


21 July 2009
Dinner, Globalscots Group, Tokyo
Private Car


22 July 2009
Meeting, Mitsubishi Tokyo
Private Car


22 July 2009
Meeting, Sumitomo Corp Tokyo
Private Car


22 July 2009
Meeting, Saltire Foundation intern at RBS securities
Private Car


22 July 2009
Visit, Nikka whisky, Tokyo
Private Car


22 July 2009
Meeting, Terumo, Marunouchi
Private Car


22 July 2009
Reception, British Embassy
Private Car


23 July 2009
Meeting, Shionogi, Osaka
Bullet Train


23 July 2009
Meeting, Panasonic Corporation, Osaka
Private Car


23 July 2009
Meeting, Terasaki, Consul General’s residence
Private Car


23 July 2009
Reception, Consul General’s residence
Nil


27 July 2009
Meeting, Friends of the Far North Line, Helmsdale
Train


27 July 2009
Homecoming Reception, Melrose
Official Car


28 July 2009
National Conversation Event, Melrose
Private Coach


28 July 2009
Meeting, the Legal Post Scotland
Official Car


29 July 2009
Meeting, South Ayrshire Council, Ayr
Official Car


29 July 2009
Meeting, Jennie Formby, Unite, Edinburgh
Official Car


29 July 2009
Meeting, Public Procurement Reform board
Nil


29 July 2009
Interview, GMTV
Nil


29 July 2009
Meeting with Barry White SFT
Nil


30 July 2009
Meeting, Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeen
Official Car


30 July 2009
Visit, Union Square development, Aberdeen
Walked


30 July 2009
SOA signing, Aberdeen City Council
Walked


30 July 2009
Visit, Hot Spot Café, Peterhead
Official Car


30 July 2009
Meeting and SOA signing Aberdeenshire Council, Peterhead
Walked


30 July 2009
Launch of Oil fund Paper, Kings College, Aberdeen
Official Car



  

Cabinet Secretary
Date of Travel
Official Engagement
Means of Travel


Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, Richard Lochhead
1 July 2009
Campbeltown Creamery
Flight


6 July 2009
Orkney Preserves
Official Car


6 July 2009
Marine Scotland Compliance
Official Car


7 July 2009
Euro Marine Energy Centre
Official Car


7 July 2009
Salmon Farm, Stromness
Official Car


7 July 2009
Orkney Fisherman’s Association
Official Car


7 July 2009
Crofting Area Assessors, Kirkwall
Official Car


7 July 2009
Stephen Hagan, Orkney Council
Nil


13 July 2009
Agriculture and Fisheries Council, Brussels
Flight


15 July 2009
Single Farm Payment Meeting, Inverurie
Official Car


17 July 2009
Meeting with Tenant Farming Association
Nil


21 July 2009
Glenlatterach Waterworks
Official Car


21 July 2009
Highland Grain Plant, Inverness
Official Car


27 July 2009
Homecoming and Cabinet Reception
Official Car


28 July 2009
Cabinet and National Conversation Event
Nil


28 July 2009
Barony College, Dumfries
Official Car


29 July 2009
Girthton Farmhouse, Castle Douglas
Official Car


29 July 2009
Sea Angling, Solway Firth
Official Car



  

Cabinet Secretary
Date of Travel
Official Engagement
Means of Travel


Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Kenny MacAskill
2 July 2009
Meeting SGoRR
Walked


3 July 2009
Launch Scottish Policing Strategies
Car


6 July 2009
Meeting with Libyan Government
Walked


7 July 2009
Launch Festival of Spirituality
Official Car


9 July 2009
Meeting Domestic Abuse Court
Official Car


9 July 2009
Visit Dalmarnock Youth Project
Official Car


9 July 2009
Visit Govan/Govanhill
Official Car


10 July 2009
Meeting with High Commissioner for Jamaica
Official Car


10 July 2009
Launch of Alcohol Diversion Pilot
Official Car


11 July 2009
Visit - Policing T in the Park
Official Car


14 July 2009
Visit to DunCarron
Official Car


14 July 2009
Visit to Community Alternatives Project
Official Car


14 July 2009
Visit to Shotts prison
Official Car


15 July 2009
Interview BBC
Walked


16 July 2009
Visit Local Knife Crime Initiative
Official Car


16 July 2009
Visit Apex Scotland Youth project
Official Car


16 July 2009
Visit Falkirk Scottish Prison Service College
Official Car


16 July 2009
Visit Falkirk Sheriff Court
Official Car


21 July 2009
Visit Youth Justice- Argyll and Bute
Official Car


21 July 2009
Visit Stramash Youth project
Official Car


21 July 2009
Visit Inverarary Highland Games
Official Car


22 July 2009
Meeting with Law Society
Walked


22 July 2009
Attend funeral of Lothian and Borders Fire Officer
Walked


22 July 2009
Reception Police Negotiating Board
Official Car


23 July 2009
Launch of Turnaround Residential Unit
Official Car


23 July 2009
Meeting with Lockerbie relatives
Official Car


23 July 2009
Meeting with Chinese Justice Minister
Official Car


27 July 2009
Conference Leadership/Diaspora
Official Car


27 July 2009
Visit Duns market garden project
Official Car


27 July 2009
Visit cash back event Coldstream
Official Car


27 July 2009
Meeting at Melrose Police Station
Official Car


28 July 2009
Meeting Youth Offending Team
Official Car


28 July 2009
Meeting Selkirk Sheriff Court
Official Car


29 July 2009
Meeting Brigadier Hugh Munro
Walked


30 July 2009
Visit Up2Us project
Official Car


30 July 2009
Visit Tullochan Trust
Official Car


30 July 2009
Visit Cornton Vale
Official Car


30 July 2009
Visit Stirling Sheriff Court
Official Car


31 July 2009
BBC Interview
Walked



  

Cabinet Secretary
Date of Travel
Official Engagement
Means of Travel


Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Fiona Hyslop
1 July 2009
Reception to celebrate US Independence Day
Official Car


2 July 2009
South Lanarkshire Council Single Outcome Agreement Signing and meeting with Council
Official Car


2 July 2009
Visit to Coatbridge College
Official Car


21 July 2009
North Lanarkshire Council Single Outcome Agreement Signing and meeting with Council
Official Car


21 July 2009
Visit to North Lanarkshire Supported Employment Service
Official Car


21 July 2009
Visit to University of West of Scotland
Official Car


22 July 2009
Visit to Barlanark Family Learning Centre
Official Car


22 July 2009
Visit to Action for Children’s Youthbuild Project
Official Car


22 July 2009
Get Ready for Work - South West Arts and Music Project
Official Car


27 July 2009
International Summer School on School Leadership Event
Official Car


27 July 2009
Visit to Cherrytrees Nursery
Official Car


27 July 2009
Homecoming Reception
Official Car


28 July 2009
Meeting with Borders Council
Official Car


28 July 2009
Dinner with John McClelland CBE FRSE, Chair of Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council
Official Car


29 July 2009
Meeting with Perth and Kinross Council, and Single Outcome Agreement Signing
Official Car


29 July 2009
Meeting West Lothian Council
Official Car



  

Cabinet Secretary
Date of Travel
Official Engagement
Means of Travel


Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, Nicola Sturgeon
1 July 2009
Cabinet Civil Contingencies Teleconference
Nil


1 July 2009
Meeting with the Scottish Patients’ Association
Nil


1 July 2009
Interview with Solus Productions
Nil


1 July 2009
Teleconference with UK Health Ministers
Nil


1 July 2009
BBC Scotland Debate
Official Car


1 July 2009
STV Debate
Official Car


2 July 2009
Infection Control Conference
Official Car


2 July 2009
Meeting with Trish Godman MSP
Official Car


2 July 2009
Visit to Bethany Trust
Official Car


8 July 2009
Teleconference with UK Health Ministers
Nil


8 July 2009
Interview with STV
Nil


8 July 2009
Receive "Attend Flame"
Official Car


13 July 2009
Visit to LG Pharmacy
Official Car


13 July 2009
Meeting with OCHRE (Standards for Oesophegal Cancer)
Official Car


13 July 2009
Visit to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Official Car


13 July 2009
Teleconference with UK Health Ministers
Official Car


16 July 2009
Cabinet Civil Contingencies Teleconference
Nil


21 July 2009
Interview with Sunday Express
Official Car


21 July 2009
Meeting with Chief Constable of Strathclyde Police
Official Car


23 July 2009
Visit to Institute of Life Sciences, Wales
Air and Official Car Service Wales


23 July 2009
UK Health Ministers’ Conference
Official Car


24 July 2009
Interview with BBC
Official Car


24 July 2009
Real Radio Interview
Nil


27 July 2009
Homecoming Reception
Coach


29 July 2009
Meeting with Des McNulty MSP
Nil


29 July 2009
Signing of Single Outcome Agreement
Official Car


30 July 2009
Teleconference with UK Health Ministers
Nil


30 July 2009
Cabinet Civil Contingencies Teleconference
Nil


31 July 2009
Launch of Foundation
Official Car